Are high school sports necessary? I don't know what I would do if I didn't play golf. You play in high school for a third of the year, and I try to play the whole year, but I think they're absolutely necessary. Everybody rallies around the football team, also the basketball team and you talk to alumni and they ask how the team's doing. ... High school would be much different without them."

Rockies relief pitcher John Axford, who hasn't pitched for the team since last Wednesday, was forced to leave spring training camp after his 2-year-old son was bit by a rattlesnake twice in his right foot.

One-day event to run slide down University HillIt's not quite the alternative mode of transportation that Boulder's used to, but, for one day this summer, residents will be able to traverse several city blocks atop inflatable tubes.

DETROIT (AP) — In a story March 27 about a 'Little Syria' exhibit going to Ellis Island, The Associated Press, due to incorrect information from the Arab American National Museum, erroneously reported the date the exhibit will open. Full Story